Translation
by means of
Examples
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He made it with his own hands.
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She came by car.
multon .
One can do a great deal with only one hand.
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What did you do that with?
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She looked at me with her big eyes.
Per marks the instrument or the means: the thing you do something with. Li skribas per la mano is "he writes with his hand", where kun would wrongly suggest the hand simply came along for company. The noun after per stays in the nominative, so the accusative -n never turns up inside a per phrase.
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